Since I saw your little casuarina from last competition, I have fallen in love with it. Went crazy and bought 4 month ago lots of 5-8mm thick seedlings. I bent them some of them...with lots of twists and turns., but I was scared to go at too extreme angles, dew to cracking few of them. One I made into a cascade...and within 2 month the wire bit in badly. It grew very fast. Now they are 2cm diameter...and growing at a great speed.
Three of them I am doing an experiment with. One I trunk chopped and want to grow it with lots of trunk chops at small intervals and some sacrifice branches, the other one I want to grow and trunk chop only when it is 5cm diameter, and do the normal chop and grow technique, the last one I left 25 cm tall, want to try thickening the trunk with sacrifice branches and controlling the growth, by reducing it more on top.
I want to see what the results will be.
One I entered in this competition...with no hopes after I saw yours. But it will be fun any way.
the cuttings from the one for the competition I planted and all of them are growing. Today I dug out one and took picture of the roots. Wanted to wire them, but they were just too brittle.
Went to my neighbors casuarina, which is on the road, to collect some seeds...but they looked green to me. Have no idea how the seeds look like... Can it be powder like?
I think seedlings will be easier to wire.
I am really enjoying all kind of projects with casuarina.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Rooted cutting:
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My experiment.
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